Minutes of the face-to-face meeting in October 4, 2016 were approved pending minor changes in the section on the membership renewal process.

Certification proposal

Oliver KOCH summarized the feedback received during the discussion session at the CAPE-OPEN 2016 Annual Meeting.

Proposal generally well received with no deep concerns expressed.

Software vendors present could see the benefits, especially from the test-suite.

Bronze/Silver/Gold levels of service agreement support for CAPE-OPEN would facilitate the take-up of a certification process for vendors of different size (small and large software vendors).

It will probably be necessary in 2017 to develop a technical proposal (under the consultancy service) from a suitable 3rd party for the development of a test-suite.

The certification terms and conditions should require software vendors to sign up to a collaboration group to facilitate interoperability testing.

The procedure for certification being withdrawn needs to be defined.

COBIA Phase II proposal

The final report on Phase I has been received from the M&T SIG. Software vendors have expressed strong interest in the proposal at the CAPE-OPEN 2016 Annual Meeting and in subsequent exchanges. The evaluations forms from the annual meeting have all been positive about the COBIA proposal.

COBIA will be made open-source. However CO-LaN will need to distribute COBIA with a code signature.

Any modification of the core COBIA software could break interoperability. It is important for CO-LaN to control modifications to the core software.

Different licencing schemes may be needed for the COBIA core software and the other COBIA components.

The COBIA licensing issue is still being discussed within the M&T SIG.

The COBIA phase II proposal was approved by a majority of the Management Board.

Associate Membership Applications

Two associate membership applications were reviewed:

The first is from a senior process engineer from India, Ramiz A. Momin. Ramiz has been modelling the Uhde Nitric acid production process with Aspen Plus and HTRI. He also works on refinery dynamic modelling with Unisim Design. This application was approved.

The second is from another engineer from India, Shaik Sadar Hussain. Further information from Shaik is expected before taking a decision on the application.

Next meeting of the Management Board is scheduled as a conference call on December 8, 2016.

CAPE-OPEN Unit Operation socket in SuperPro Designer®

Advanced Process Engineering Co-Simulator (APECS)

Model-centric process engineering

DyOS is a software tool for the solution of dynamic optimization problems.DyOS allows the model to be accessed via a so-called Equation Set Object (ESO) interface, a standard developed in the CAPE-OPEN project.

CAPE-OPEN at TOTAL

Use of CAPE-OPEN at BP as of 2008

Air Liquide use of CAPE-OPEN

This report, made at the CAPE-OPEN 2008 European Conference, covers actions related to CAPE-OPEN between 2004 and 2008. Air Liquide has been leveraging on CAPE-OPEN to streamline the process of developing and distributing thermodynamic expertise within its engineering functions.

CAPE-OPEN Property Package for ChemSep

CAPE-OPEN Unit Operation socket in UniSim Design

Honeywell Process Solutions was awarded funding within the Consultancy Services scheme. Outcome of this action was reported by Martin ROSS, UniSim Product Manager, at the CAPE-OPEN 2014 Annual Meeting, held on September 10-11, 2014 in Mörfelden, Germany.

Consultancy Services: how does it work?

The purpose of the Consultancy Services scheme is to provide assistance, in the form of access to a specialist consultant and funding, in the new implementation of CAPE-OPEN interfaces or the improvement of existing interface implementations. Look out for the next round of service requests and apply.

Dynamic simulation and numerical analysis tool

The simulation environment Diana (Dynamic simulation and numerical analysis tool) performs the numerical analysis of problems such as the ones usually found in process engineering.

One of the main aspects of Diana is that it relies on the CAPE-OPEN Numerical interfaces. The models handled by the solvers within the numerical kernel of Diana, or plugged in Diana, are object-oriented models based on the CAPE-OPEN Equation Set Object (ESO) concept.